You really won&#39;t be happy with the capture card until you get a bigger drive anyway. Encoding files to mpeg quality takes lots of time, and plenty of harddrive space. For example, a 30 minute TV show can take over a GB of space on your drive. From there, you can re-encode the file to shrink it down, but that takes even more space.

Just a recommendation, but 60 gigs is becoming small by todays standards too. I wouldn&#39;t buy anything less than 80 GB.

The HDD size is totaly related to the computer&#39;s use....for example, I use my main comp for kazaa stuff and ripping DVD&#39;s, as a result, I have a 180BG HD, with 10BG free....and then I have another comp with a 20GB HD, wich I use for other, less HDD and CPU demanding stuff (i.e: word processing ), and I always have about 3-5 BG free...

Originally posted by Jibbler@5 April 2003 - 13:14 You really won&#39;t be happy with the capture card until you get a bigger drive anyway. Encoding files to mpeg quality takes lots of time, and plenty of harddrive space. For example, a 30 minute TV show can take over a GB of space on your drive. From there, you can re-encode the file to shrink it down, but that takes even more space.

depending on which capture card you get, i&#39;d suggest one that does direct mpeg encoding , either through hardware or software ...

i&#39;m using a WinFast GeForce4 Ti4200 VIVO , which allows you to encode real-time. Quality&#39;s not that good , of course , as compared to overnight encoding. But a decicated capture card ( like Snazzi) would do the job very well.